Conventional "requirements" ...are systems of prescriptions and proscriptions intended solely to limit the physical and intellectual movements of students - to "keep them in line, in sequence, in order," etc. (Neil Postman)

Conventional "requirements" ...are systems of prescriptions and proscriptions intended solely to limit the physical and intellectual movements of students - to "keep them in line, in sequence, in order," etc.

Neil Postman

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